Menominee, MI
Menominee, MI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Menominee at the 28th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 5,376 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Menominee at the 29th percentile, close to its 28th-percentile risk score.
Menominee's building exposure, zone by zone
78.1% of Menominee's 5,376 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 7.8% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 5,376 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Menominee ranks
Compare Menominee's two percentiles: 80th within Michigan, only 28th nationally — a gap of 52 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Menominee ranks 22,601 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,209 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 150 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 28th national percentile, Menominee rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Menominee
Menominee's 78.1% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 5,376 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Menominee. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Menominee, see the exposure-zones guide.